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Processing Difficult Thoughts (Or In the Alternative, a List of Fave Fantasy/SciFi Authors and Books)

14 January 2025

Too much going on in the writing world. I can’t necessarily process it all. Saddened but not necessarily surprised. Maybe that is what actually should surprise me—that I wasn’t surprised but just disheartened. People in a place of power and privilege using that power and privilege against those who have no power/privilege or a very … More Processing Difficult Thoughts (Or In the Alternative, a List of Fave Fantasy/SciFi Authors and Books)

2025 Off My Shelf Reading Challenge

4 January 2025

I’ve previously mentioned that I don’t just have a TBR shelf, I have an entire TBR bookcase! For the past several years, I’ve slowly been trying to tackle myTBR, including this major effort in 2023. This also involves purging books that no longer spark joy. It’s an ongoing work in progress with various levels of … More 2025 Off My Shelf Reading Challenge

10 Romance Tropes With Book Recommendations

28 December 2024

With less than a week until the New Year, I’ve been thinking, like I often do, about books. Whether I can get a couple more books in before January 1 and what I will set my 2025 reading goals to. Then I reviewed what I have read this year, checking out my 2024 stats (and … More 10 Romance Tropes With Book Recommendations

Blanket Forts on Thanksgiving Eve

27 November 2024

The last couple of weeks have been daunting, if not downright scary, for a lot of us. A lot of us dreading what will happen starting on January 20. Because the news has not been pleasant thus far, from who will be leading DOGE (and that’s not just a cryptocurrency), as well as the other … More Blanket Forts on Thanksgiving Eve

Summer’s End & Book Purging

31 August 2024

How is it August 31?! I feel like I’ve been saying that all year, but August seemed to fly by fastest yet. One moment, I was wrapping up #WyrdandWonder and starting my June #BIPOC readathon and now it’s Labor Day weekend. So to catch up, June was a great reading month. I participated in East … More Summer’s End & Book Purging

When All Your Library Holds Come In At Once

2 June 2024

I interrupt this regularly scheduled reading time to discuss one of the many booknerd problems. It’s the Murphy’s Law for readers—it’s inevitable that if you place holds on multiple books, no matter how many people have also requested the various books, all of your library holds will come in at the same. Last weekend, I … More When All Your Library Holds Come In At Once

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